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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, probb@iol.unh.edu, matan@nvidia.com,
	ferruh.yigit@amd.com, andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru,
	anatoly.burakov@intel.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Release ethdev shared memory on port cleanup
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 18:05:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3559497.LM0AJKV5NW@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230821085806.3062613-1-david.marchand@redhat.com>

21/08/2023 10:58, David Marchand:
> This series was triggered after investigating why the
> eal_flags_file_prefix_autotest unit test was failing in the case of
> statically built binaries [1]).
> 
> For now, I went with a simple (naive) approach and put all accesses to the
> shared data under a single lock: ethdev maintainers, it is your turn to
> shine and give me reasons why we should keep the locks the way they
> were ;-).

I think the reasons are:
- we wanted to call rte_spinlock_init()
- we didn't want to allocate an ethdev lock in EAL memory config

How eliminating a lock is making the last patch easier exactly?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-31 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-18  9:13 [PATCH 0/2] " David Marchand
2023-08-18  9:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] ethdev: protect shared memory accesses under one lock David Marchand
2023-08-18  9:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] ethdev: cleanup shared data with the last port David Marchand
2023-08-18 11:36   ` David Marchand
2023-08-18 10:18 ` [PATCH 0/2] Release ethdev shared memory on port cleanup Morten Brørup
2023-08-31 15:34   ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-08-18 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 " David Marchand
2023-08-18 13:41   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] ethdev: protect shared memory accesses under one lock David Marchand
2023-08-18 13:41   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] ethdev: cleanup shared data with the last port David Marchand
2023-08-21  8:58 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Release ethdev shared memory on port cleanup David Marchand
2023-08-21  8:58   ` [PATCH v3 1/3] ethdev: protect shared memory accesses under one lock David Marchand
2023-08-21  8:58   ` [PATCH v3 2/3] ethdev: avoid panicking in absence of ethdev shared data David Marchand
2023-08-21  8:58   ` [PATCH v3 3/3] ethdev: cleanup shared data with the last port David Marchand
2023-08-31 16:05   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2023-09-01  7:32     ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Release ethdev shared memory on port cleanup David Marchand
2023-09-27 11:45 ` [PATCH v4 " David Marchand
2023-09-27 11:45   ` [PATCH v4 1/3] ethdev: protect shared memory accesses under one lock David Marchand
2023-09-27 11:45   ` [PATCH v4 2/3] ethdev: avoid panicking in absence of ethdev shared data David Marchand
2023-09-27 11:45   ` [PATCH v4 3/3] ethdev: cleanup shared data with the last port David Marchand
2023-10-11 12:53   ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Release ethdev shared memory on port cleanup Thomas Monjalon

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